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Isn't he?
If you mashed Tom Cruise and John Travolta together, wouldn't Taylor Lautner come out the other side? As you know, for a long time now, I've been calling him Tom Cruise Jr. But lately he's added a little Danny Zuko/Tony Manero flavour to his dance routine. I call it Top Gun Grease. This is not a porn.
Check him out, all leather-clad and suave-y at Teen Choice last night with 5 new hairs above his lip like a real boy trying to be a man. And then on stage, inspired perhaps by the extension displayed in the volleyball scene, Top Gun Grease lifts up one arm to salute the crowd, combining the move with a cheeky side eye and a lip pout, proving yet again that they just can't make this kid cool, no matter how hard they try, which is exactly Tom Cruise's problem too.
Is it mean? Is he too young to be subjected to such scrutiny, scorn, snark?
Of course he's too young. He's also too young to be run like a machine, molded by a studio, suppressed by a father, sold as a heartthrob. I'm ok with you yelling at me. But once in a while you should try yelling at the people who are putting him there.
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According to a new survey from BDO USA, nearly all retail CFOs (94%) expect merger and acquisition (M&A) activity will increase or remain steady in 2013. CFOs' bullish forecasts follow $324.6 billion in global retail and consumer M&A activity in 2012, which was up 33% over 2011 and the busiest year since 2007, according to Dealogic. A majority of CFOs (68%) expect the U.S. markets to see a majority of deal volume, followed by the Asia-Pacific market (20%) and Latin America market (7%).
BDO said retail CFOs also forecast robust IPO activity in 2013. Following 13 U.S. retail public offerings in 2012 (according to Intrepid Investment Bankers), a vast majority of CFOs (83%) expect to see more or about the same number of retail IPOs this year. When asked what the biggest driver of a company's ability to go public in 2013 is, CFOs point to the strength of the U.S. economy and stock market (42%), as well as strength of brand (24%) as top factors.
"In terms of overall M&A transactions, we've seen the fastest start to the year since 2005, and retail looks to be a bright spot for deal-making this year," said Stephen Wyss, partner in the Retail and Consumer Products practice at BDO USA. "Steadier markets, renewed interest in international growth and the desire for omni-channel capabilities are fueling the investment rebound in retail and consumer businesses."
These findings are from the seventh-annual BDO Retail Compass Survey of CFOs, which examined the opinions of 100 chief financial officers at leading retailers located throughout the country. The retailers in the study were among the largest in the country. The survey was conducted in January and February of 2013.
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CHULA VISTA, Calif. (Sept. 30, 2012) – The U.S. men's beach volleyball team of Tri Bourne and Will Montgomery won the silver medal on Sunday at the 2012 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit event at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif.
Montgomery (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Bourne (Aiea, Hawaii), the USA3 team, fell in the gold medal match to Canada's Chaim Schalk and Benjamin Saxton, 21-16, 21-15 in 37 minutes on a hot and breezy day in Chula Vista.
"We played well. They're just a really good team and they played really well in that match," Montgomery said. "They're the best in the tournament and they deserve the gold. We deserve our silver."
Montgomery and Bourne finished the tournament 4-1 in matches and 8-2 in sets. Schalk and Saxton were 5-0 and 10-0.
Schalk and Saxton never trailed in the gold medal match, keeping Montgomery and Bourne at bay with consistent play in transition and tough blocking.
Canada also captured the bronze medal as the Canada2 team of Cameron Wheelan and Michael Plantiga defeated the USA5 team of Avery Drost (Hawthorne, Calif.) and Jesse Rambis (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), 23-21, 29-27 in 55 minutes.
In the semifinals, Montgomery and Bourne defeated Drost and Rambis, 31-29, 21-19 in 55 minutes.
Both Montgomery and Drost had gone into the tournament knowing they had the potential to win a medal, even though they were playing just their second event together.
"I knew it could go either way," Bourne said. "It all depended on how we played. If we played to our potential we could reach the podium and if not, we could be out the first day."
Sunday's Results
Semifinals: CAN1 d CAN2 2-0 (21-11, 21-15), USA3 d USA5 2-0 (31-29, 21-19); Bronze medal: CAN2 d USA5 2-0 (23-21, 29-27); Gold medal: CAN1 d USA3 2-0 (21-16, 21-15)
Classification 13-16: TRI d TCI 2-0 (21-15, 21-6); ISV d CRC 2-1 (24-26, 21-11, 15-7)


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The global food container market is expected to grow in the coming years as a result of increase in global food output and the increasing trend toward convenience-oriented food options because of the changing lifestyles. In addition, the rising trend of women in workforce, increasing urban population, and rise in single person households are fuelling the growth of food container industry.
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Plastic containers are expected to witness the highest growth rate as they offer numerous advantages over glass, metal, and paperboard containers. Bag and pouch prospects will benefit from advantages like better visual appeal, convenience, product differentiation, portability, freshness protection, etc. Paperboard food containers demand is expected to grow at a slower pace based on the maturity of different applications and competition from flexible packaging. However, paperboard tubs and folding cartons will continue to dominate ice creams and frozen desserts packaging segments.
Market Segmentation
Segmentation Based on Product
- Bags and Pouches
- Plastic Food Containers
- Paperboard Food Containers
- Metal Food Containers
- Glass Food Containers
- Raw Materials Food Containers
Segmentation Based on Application
- Beverage
- Sauces, Dressings, and Condiments Dairy
- Canned Food
- Fast Food
- Chilled and Frozen Food
- Dried Food
- Baked Food
- Candy and Confections
This research report on the food containers includes analysis of this market depending on important market segments and major geographies. It includes an analysis of the current market trends, industry growth drivers, restraints, and market projections for the coming years.
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The major geographies analyzed under this market research study are North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe and Rest of the World.
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The message from VA to the friends and families of Veterans during Suicide Prevention Month is simple: Be there.
"We know that in 2014, an average of 20 Veterans a day died in this country from suicide, which is 20 too many," said VA Secretary David J. Shulkin. "This is a national public health crisis requiring a national public health approach. When it comes to preventing Veteran suicide, VA can't – and should not – do this alone."
For Suicide Prevention Month, VA has a number of outreach events planned to raise awareness. Among some of the top events planned:
Veterans in crisis can call the Veterans Crisis Line for confidential support 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year at 1-800-273-8255 and Press 1, chat online at VeteransCrisisLine.net/Chat, or text to 838255. Veterans can also visit Make the Connection, a powerful network of stories of recovery, to learn more: http://maketheconnection.net. For more information and resources, visit and VeteransCrisisLine.net/BeThere VeteransCrisisLine.net/SpreadTheWord.
Reporters covering this issue are strongly encouraged to visit www.ReportingOnSuicide.Org for important guidance on ways to communicate on suicide.


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|Event Calendar » Pokemon League on 1-25-2020
|Event Information
|Category & Name
|Pokemon — Pokemon League
|Clockwork Games & Events
|Date & Time
|January 25, 2020 @ 1:00p / 1:30p
|Entry Fee
|Additional Details
|Each week at Pokemon League, come up to the counter and check in by signing your name on the Pokemon League sign-in sheet.
If you don't have a POP ID, let us know and we'll get one for you.
If you've never played in the Pokemon League at Clockwork, let us know so we can add you to our League Roster.
If you don't have a Pokemon scorecard for the current season, we'll put your name on one (and it stays behind the counter for the month).
Your goal each Saturday is to play either 7 TCG matches or 7 VG matches. After each match, you and your opponent should BOTH come up to the counter and alert a member of the staff that you've completed a match and they'll mark it on your season scorecards. Once you've played your 7th match for the day, you'll earn your next reward:
Prize #1 = Current season TCG promo card
Prize #2 = Current season TCG promo card
Prize #3 = Current season TCG Online promo card
Prize #4 = Current season Gym Patch
Prize #5 (if there is a 5th Saturday in the month) = choose an old promo, if any remain
Both the Pokemon TCG and Pokemon Video Games are played.
For information on the Pokemon TCG, click here.
For information on Pokemon Video Games, click here.
Want to get more involved in your local community? Click here to join the BCS Pokemon Facebook group!


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In 1994, four women were accused of sex assault. Now, a witness has recanted.
Sitting in the prison where she's spent nearly half of her life, Elizabeth Ramirez is stunned by the words that could help exonerate her and three friends of the sexual assault of her two nieces, a crime she said she couldn't fathom let alone commit.
It never happened, one niece now says of the debauched, orgy-like nightmare that she and her older sister described to San Antonio police in 1994 when they were 7 and 9.
"I want my aunt and her friends out of prison," Stephanie, 25, said by phone last week. "Whatever it takes to get them out I'm going to do. I can't live my life knowing that four women are sleeping in a cage because of me."
Sixteen years into a 37½-year sentence, Ramirez prayed for such a turn of events.
While Stephanie's recantation may not ultimately lead to the legal exoneration the women are fighting to win, it's closer to vindication.
Like Ramirez, Kristie Mayhugh, Anna Vasquez and Cassandra Rivera know they face a long court battle to clear their names. By the time it's over, the three may have already fulfilled their 15-year sentences, due to end in three years.
Not so for Ramirez. Labeled the ringleader by her nieces and slapped with a prison term more than double that of her friends, who were tried separately, she has the most to gain from an exoneration in that it would free her from a sentence that doesn't end until 2034. By then, she'll be 60.
Ramirez and Rivera were just 20 when they were arrested. Vasquez was 19 and Mayhugh 22. None ever had been in trouble with the law.
The women already have missed so much of life and the milestones that come with approaching middle age, they said two weeks ago in individual prison interviews.
Rivera, 37, whose hair is turning gray, never has held her 1-year-old granddaughter. Mayhugh, 39, and Vasquez, 37, have missed the chance to say goodbye to loved ones who died. Ramirez, 38, hasn't seen or spoken to her son since going to prison when he was 2. She was pregnant at the time she was accused.
"I never want to be bitter and angry," Ramirez said, from the Hobby Unit visitation room in Marlin. "Regardless, God always says you gotta love and you've got to forgive."
The women expressed that same sentiment more than two years ago when the San Antonio Express-News published a report examining their innocence claims.
Not until their attorney showed each of them a typed summary of his meetings with Stephanie could they believe she had recanted.
"At first I was like, 'Are you serious?'" Ramirez said, her eyes widening. "I didn't think they had anything on paper."
It's not the only development. Their attorney Mike Ware, who is working with the Innocence Project of Texas, plans to meet soon with the Bexar County district attorney's office. An Austin crew is filming a documentary.
All of the women said they are cautiously optimistic.
"I know the charges against us are not taken lightly. But can they please keep looking into this?" said Vasquez, who is in Gatesville's Murray Unit.
"I hate that I can't talk about this without crying," she said, wiping away tears. "Maybe it's been put into (Stephanie's) heart to finally tell the truth. I thank God that she's come forward.
"They painted us as monsters."
The recant
Over the years, as Stephanie spoke with family and friends, she came to the conclusion there was no crime.
Her aunt and her friends never violently turned on her when she and her sister were visiting Ramirez's one-bedroom apartment on Winkle Street in summer 1994, she now says.
As the nieces then described it to the police and later to jurors, the women called them into the apartment, where they were getting drunk and smoking pot, two of them lounging around topless, and held them by their wrists and ankles, repeatedly violated them, threatened to kill them and their families — then let them take a shower and go about their day. The graphic tale later spurred talk of Satanism.
Stephanie now recalls the visit as uneventful.
"I remember going to the store, going to (Ramirez's) job and being bored, going swimming," she said. "I remember all of that but something that is supposed to be traumatic in my life I should remember that too."
The Express-News generally doesn't name sexual-assault victims, which both nieces are in the eyes of the law. While Stephanie no longer considers herself one, she asked that her full name not be used because of safety concerns.
Attempts to reach the second niece weren't successful.
Of the two, only the elder niece testified at both trials; Stephanie was just called to the stand in the trial of Ramirez's friends. On and off the witness stand, the sisters changed their accounts of the timing, the use of weapons, the perpetrators and other basic details of the assault every time they told it to authorities, records show.
It was one of several red flags raised in the Express-News investigation published in December 2010 that also delved into concerns about the scientific legitimacy of medical evidence used against the women, whether anyone looked into a previous rape allegation made by the girls and if anti-gay views prejudiced Ramirez's jury.
All four women believe their same-sex relationships hurt their case. Mayhugh and Ramirez had dated. Vasquez helped raise Rivera's two children and they lived together until they were imprisoned.
When the women were tried, their defense was that the nieces were lying.
Ramirez testified that she had turned down marriage proposals from her nieces' father, who was her sister's former boyfriend. That could have angered him, she said.
When asked about that in 2010, Stephanie's father, Javier Limon, vehemently denied being in any way involved in the accusations and making any advances toward Ramirez.
Calls made last week to a number listed for Limon were not returned.
Jurors at both trials rejected the women's claims and convicted them of aggravated child sexual assault and indecency with a child.
When she was in her late teens, Stephanie said she saw a counselor and talked about the case.
Her change of heart has ruined her relationship with her sister, Stephanie said.
Mayhugh, who is in Gatesville's Mountain View Unit, said in an interview that Stephanie's recantation gave her some relief.
"After the shock, I was happy because it was good to hear the things she was saying were the things we said all along — nothing happened," she said.
Looking forward
Every time Rivera has come close to giving up hope, she gets a sign to stay strong. Stephanie's reversal was the latest.
"It basically tore my world apart," Rivera said, sitting in the same visitation room as Ramirez.
Ware, who said Stephanie requested to meet with him, wasn't counting on any recantation, but it bolsters what he said is significant evidence strongly suggesting innocence, though he wouldn't elaborate.
"It's very clear she believes the right thing for these four wrongfully convicted women is that they be exonerated," Ware said.
The first step is filing for a new trial in state district court, he said. That court would hear evidence, then give recommended findings and conclusions to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for a final decision.
Ware and DA office spokesman First Assistant District Attorney Cliff Herberg said a congenial start is in the works although extensive legal wrangling might follow.
"What I would hope," Ware said, "is that they will be open with me in the information they've got in their files and say, 'We've got nothing to hide; here it all is.'"
Herberg said it's too early for the district attorney to take a position on the case or to know whether the office or a special prosecutor would handle it.
"We are more than willing to listen to anything they have to say," Herberg said. "It's paramount that justice is done, whatever that is."
Neither side commented on the physical evidence presented at both trials from pediatrician Nancy Kellogg, then as now the medical director of Child Safe, formerly the Alamo Children's Advocacy Center.
Kellogg twice has declined to comment, including on medical studies that show at the time of the examination of the girls and the trials, three of the signs she noted as sexual trauma were not classified as such. At most, the signs only could be deemed inconclusive because Kellogg didn't examine the girls until months after the reported crime.
Kellogg's exam report also showed she spoke to police about "my concern that this could be Satanic-related." Satanic rituals, cited as reasons for a wave of child sex-abuse cases in the mid-1980s to early 1990s, were widely discredited before she saw the girls.
'I'm sorry'
Walled off from their loved ones and largely from each other for more than a decade, the women have heard only snippets of information about efforts to free them.
None has seen Facebook, Twitter, You Tube or other social media used by their supporters.
When she gets out, Rivera hopes to help raise her granddaughter to make up for lost time with her own two children.
Mayhugh, who at the time of the accusations was studying at Texas A&M with the goal of becoming a veterinarian, said she'd like to think she would have had a little business by now.
Vasquez wrote in a letter the day of her interview: "It's hard seeing mom getting older and not being able to be of any help to her."
As they headed back to the dorm from the prison visitation room, Rivera put her arm around Ramirez's shoulders and gave her a reassuring squeeze and pat on the back.
Stephanie hasn't spoken to her aunt since she accused her. She sent her a letter about two weeks ago. As of Sept. 5, Ramirez hadn't received it.
"Does she know I'm trying to help?" Stephanie asked a reporter. "I can't take back what I did, but if I could talk to all of them in one room I would just say I'm sorry. I'm sorry for ruining them."
Photographer Bob Owen contributed to this report.


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" ... enchanting, infinitely witty yet serious,
exceptionally intelligent, wholly original and Austen-like ..."
—Fay Weldon, Washington Post Book World
PORTSMOUTH — On Tuesday, May 7, The Music Hall's Writers in the Loft series welcomes "one of the last urbane romantics," author Elinor Lipman, whose novels have been hailed by reviewers from London to Los Angeles. Lipman joins the celebrated author series to discuss her true-to-life novel, The View from Penthouse B. The 7 p.m. event includes an author presentation and moderated Q+A, plus book signing and meet-and-greet. It will be held at the Music Hall Loft at 131 Congress Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.The View from Penthouse B is the spirited tale of two sisters, suddenly roommates, recovering from widowhood, divorce, and Bernie Madoff. Unexpectedly widowed Gwen-Laura Schmidt is still mourning her husband, Edwin, when her older sister Margot invites her to join forces as roommates in Margot's luxurious Greenwich Village apartment. For Margot, divorced amid scandal (hint: her husband was a fertility doctor) and then made Ponzi-poor, it's a chance to shake Gwen out of her grief and help make ends meet. To further this effort she enlists a third boarder, the handsome, cupcake-baking Anthony.
As the three swap money-making schemes and timid Gwen ventures back out into the dating world, the arrival of Margot's paroled ex in the efficiency apartment downstairs creates not just complications but the chance for all sorts of unexpected forgiveness. A sister story about love, loneliness, and new life in middle age, this is a cracklingly witty, deeply sweet novel from one of our finest comic writers.
After a presentation of her novel, Lipman will entertain questions and commentary from fans in the audience and from moderator Margaret Talcott, Associate Producer of the Writers in the Loft series. Says Talcott, "Elinor Lipman is a master novelist. For more than two decades she has made her readers feel like an old friend, sharing with them fresh, funny and delightfully complicated stories. Elinor and her writing are candid, charming, and insightful. I can't wait to hear the story of — and the story behind! — The View from Penthouse B.
Lipman is the author of ten novels, including The View from Penthouse B, Then She Found Me, and The Inn at Lake Devine, and two works of nonfiction, I Can't Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays and Tweet Land of Liberty: Irreverent Rhymes from the Political Circus. She lives in Massachusetts and New York City.
The ticket package is $40. In addition to a reserved seat, the package includes a copy of the hardcover book ($25), a bar beverage, and book signing meet-and-greet. Packages can be purchased through The Music Hall Box Office, located at 28 Chestnut Street, Portsmouth, over the phone at 603-436-2400 or online at www.themusichall.org.


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FORT MEADE, Md. - A former supervisor of Pfc. Bradley Manning testified Friday that Manning told her the American flag meant nothing to him and he had no allegiance to the United States.
The testimony of Jihrleah Showman was elicited by prosecutors, who have charged Manning with aiding the enemy by leaking reams of classified documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks with a "general evil intent," knowing it would be seen by al-Qaida members.
During a lengthy cross-examination, defense attorney David Coombs sought to discredit Showman. He implied she made up the conversation because she disliked Manning, partly because he is gay.
Showman, a former Army specialist, said Manning made the comments in a conversation they had a couple months before they deployed to the war zone in late 2009.
"I tapped the flag on my shoulder and asked him what it meant," she said. "He said the flag meant nothing to him and he did not consider himself to have allegiance to this country or any people."
She said she was "distraught" by the statement and suspected Manning was a spy.
Coombs suggested that what Manning really said was that people shouldn't have "blind allegiance to a flag" and that "you cannot be an automaton." Showman said she didn't remember Manning saying those things.
Coombs also asked Showman why she didn't write up Manning in a "counseling statement," a military disciplinary document, since she had counseled Manning in writing about excessive smoke breaks and drinking too much coffee. She acknowledged she had also recommended him at one point for soldier of the month.
If a soldier made disloyal comments, "that would be a serious matter," Coombs said.
Showman said she reported the comments verbally to her supervisor, Sgt. 1st Class Paul Adkins. Adkins, now retired, testified he didn't remember such a conversation, but also said his memory is impaired because of a fall he suffered during one of his deployments. Adkins also said he didn't recall hearing Manning making any disloyal remarks before his arrest in May 2010.
Prosecutor Capt. Angel Overgaard later produced a document that Adkins signed in June 2011 stating he had informed a supervisor about Showman's allegation.
Adkins was administratively reduced from master sergeant to sergeant first class for failing to take proper steps to address Manning's emotional outbursts and other issues before they deployed for Iraq, according to Adkins' testimony and a defense filing.
Manning, a 25-year-old Oklahoma native, has acknowledged giving WikiLeaks hundreds of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports and State Department diplomatic cables, along with battlefield videos and other documents. He downloaded them in late 2009 and early 2010 from a classified government computer network while working as in intelligence analyst in Iraq. WikiLeaks posted much of the material online.
Manning faces a possible life sentence without parole if convicted of aiding the enemy. He also is charged with espionage, computer fraud, theft and other offenses.
Manning has said he leaked the material to provoke public discussion about what he considered wrongdoing by American troops and diplomats. The material included video of a 2007 U.S. Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed 11 men, including a Reuters news photographer and his driver. A military investigation concluded the troops reasonably mistook the photography equipment for weapons.
Manning chose to be tried by a judge, rather than a jury. The court-martial ended its seventh week Friday at the Fort Meade Army base outside Baltimore. The military judge, Col. Denise Lind, said it will resume Thursday with her ruling on defense motions to dismiss five theft counts, followed by closing arguments.


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Sunday May 25th we found out we are expecting baby #3! We had just gotten home from church and Ryan had starting throwing around baby names & I started thinking it had been awhile since my last cycle. So I told Ryan I was going to take a pregnancy test and see. I seem to always have 5+ on hand, so in literally 5 minutes we went from "lets see if we're pregnant" to "holy cow we're pregnant!!" We had waited the whole 5 minutes and I was getting ready to go check the stick. As I was approaching the bathroom door I hear Ryan yell, "Just give it to me straight, don't joke." I agree & proceed to the bathroom. I look at the stick & stand there for a second in complete shock. I come out (with tons of enthusiasm) and yell "WE'RE PREGNANT!" Ryan immediately thinks I'm joking and after a few minutes he realizes I'm serious & is immediately filled with joy & is so happy. I start crying (happy tears). So here are some fun facts on this pregnancy:
I am due Jan 30th
We ARE going to find out the sex this time
June was a burr with morning sickness :-(
Tucker wants a 'sissssstor'
No cravings as of yet.
Thanking God for this little blessing!


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In doing further research I learned that the wild beaver attacked a man who was out fishing. I can only assume he was quite surprised to be assaulted in such fashion. He is reportedly doing fine at this time.
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
Hope he at least got a hat out of the deal. Not going the other way with this.
I live in ChesCo.
There is a wide range of beavers that would require a patient to undergo prophylaxis.
Losing. It. :D
I live in Chester County too!! :)
Honestly grumpy, your are a child!
That's why you should always use a dental dam.
That's a new and different way to get rabies...oh wait, you meant the animal?
off topic, but how does one wrangle and invitation to read white coat rants's and 10 out of 10's blogs? they seem to be on all of the blogs that I read, but they're private. Do you happen to have an hall pass?
Maybe the man had a wooden leg.
Isn't rabies hydrophobia?
That's why I always take a couple bottles of water when I go to see the beaver.
@lovinmyjob: that would definitely make it easier to throw the beaver a bone...
I grew up just south of there and there was a place called Beaver Valley nearby. I never personally saw any beavers there, but it was known as a place to go parking. God, my teen years were dull.
Hell, there was Beaver College until they changed it to Arcadia University due to the "net nanny" programs filtering it out...
signed, grew up in the same town as Beaver College, thinking nothing of it...
Also, on my way back to my current home state from any visit to PA, I pass a sign for "Randy Beaver, Handyman". Yep. Real name.
Used to live in Chester Co. but had to move due to all this aggressive rabid beavers.
The Brearley School in Manhattan is an all girls K-12 private school. Their mascot: The Beavers.
Castor canadensis
Little Calf Creamery. Delicious homemade ice cream and food in Thousand Oaks!


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According to the Daily Record, rapper Snoop Lion (yes, that is the same person as Snoop Dogg), is interested in owning a piece of Celtic FC of the Scottish Premier League. What, you didn't know that Snoop was a big soccer fan? Well, for your information, he most definitely kind of is.
Snoop was inspired to get involved after watching the club, who are worth around £30million, beat Barcelona in the Champions League earlier this month.
He said: "I got a lot of interest in soccer. It's not a new thing for hip hop stars to invest in sports teams but it is a new thing for hip hop stars to invest in soccer teams.
"I didn't catch the whole Barcelona game but I watched the highlights. I know Barcelona are
a big deal, and it shows Celtic are a big deal as well.
His reasoning may be a bit flimsy, but I don't see anything wrong with it. I mean, isn't that the point of becoming rich in the first place, so that you can just spend exorbitant amounts of money on cool shit you see on T.V.?
Snoop is even considering buying a home in the UK so he can keep a closer eye on his investment, as the Daily Record pointed out in the most British way possible:
And Snoop, who was once banned from coming to the UK after a series of drug and firearms offences, says he is so serious that he'd even consider buying a "crib" – or home – here to keep an eye on his investment.
We hope Snoop follows through with his plan and it leads to British newspapers having to parse through his soundbites on a regular basis. That would be fun.


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This is the best priced 46 Grand Banks Europa currently on the market.
NEW Raymarine Radar & GPS (June, 2018)
Her owners have loved her and enjoyed traveling with her all over the East Coast during the past 16 years and are now thinking about making a change.
Irish Lady had her spring launch and commissioning and is sitting pretty in the water ready for a great 2018 summer of fun.
Easy to inspect…so call and come take a look at this pretty Europa.
She is a nicely maintained example of the popular Grand Banks 46 Heritage Europa. With her in-line six cylinder Caterpillar engines, her engine room is a dream to work in. The only 46 Europa we have seen with Captains Quarters built into what we originally referred to as the garage space (the very large storage/utility area aft of the house and forward of the lazarette).
She is on her second owner, originally from Florida she has been a New England boat since 2002 and is always stored under cover in the off season. Priced right for an immediate sale.
Grand Banks is well known for their superbly crafted full varnished teak interiors and this yacht is no exception. She has the preferred solid teak parquet soles and is the preferred two stateroom, two head galley up layout.
There is an abundance of natural light and ventilation courtesy of the salon/helm deck that is fully surrounded by large windows, several of which are sliders with screens. Forward there are smaller slider type windows in the trunk cabin in each stateroom and head as well as overhead hatches. Artificial light is also superb with brass swivel style reading lamps at each berth and settee as well as several overhead lights throughout. When natural ventialtion is not enough, cooling is provided via three reverse cylcle (they also can provide heat) air conditioning units.
Starting forward is the Master Stateroom featuring an island queen berth below. There is storage in a full sized chart drawer and four cargo drawers. There is additional storage in lockers outboard, a five drawer bureau and cedar lined hanging locker with light. A 15" TV is in a cabinet aft and to starboard followed by the separate shower comparment while opposite to port is the private head featuring Vacuflush W.C. and a generous vanity with ample storage.
Next aft and to port is the Guest Stateroom which features two thwartship running 6'-6" berths below. There is storage in drawers while hanging storage is outboard between the berths in a cedar lined hanging locker with light.
Opposite to starboard is the Guest Head featuring a separate stall shower compartment, combination washer an dryer unit, large vanity with excellent storage and Vacuflush W.C.
Up four steps (storage under some of them) to the Salon, Galley and Lower Helm Station. The U-Shaped Galley is to port and features expansive Corian counter space and storage in several lockers and drawers, stainless steel single basis sink, Princess 3-burner stove with oven and Sharp convection microwave. Refrigerated storage is in two boxes with Grunert 12V refrigeration with small freezer compartments. The yacht was ordered with the optional overhead dish lockers.
Opposite to port is the Lower Helm Station with double helm seat, full navigational and engine controls and the yachts electrical distribution panels. Adjacent to the helm is a side door for quick access to the starboard decks.
Aft is the full width salon that opens out onto the aft deck via two wide double doors, to port is the dining settee, an L-shaped arrangement and teak drop leaf table on a high low pneumatic assist. Aft is a small bureau with storage. Opposite are two barrel chairs with storage under and an entertainment console with storage. Forward of the seating area is a dry bar housing bottle and glass storage and the U-Line ice maker.
Unique to this Grand Banks 46 Europa is the short term "Captains Quarters" built into what is otherwise a generous utility compartment aft of the engine room, below the forward portion of the aft deck. Access is gained via the aft deck and there is a double berth to starboard, electric W.C. to port along with a small vanity and sink.
Wired for both 12 volt and DEC and 120 volt AC power. An Onan 8KW generator showing 1550 hours handles heavier loads when off the dock while a Heart/Freedom 3000 watt inverter handles lighter loads.
Fully equipped with all necessary electronics at both the upper and lower helm stations:
A pair of 3116 Caterpillars that have been well maintained turn 4-blade Nibral propellers on 2" stainless shafts through twin disc 2.5:1 reduction gears.
Solid fiberglass hull with original white gel coat in excellent condition with molded in plank lines, spray rails, rub rails and quarter rails. The rub rail is capped with bronze half round as is the varnished teak cap rail. Flag blue gel coat boot top in excellent condition and hard expoxy anti fouling with minimal build up.
Full walk around decks and an expansive aft deck all with the traditional Grand Banks 9/16" thick (thickest in the industry) teak deck overlay in excellent condition. Varnished teak cap rails and safety rails and other trim. Again all varnish work is in very good to excellent condition. Bronze deck hardware including stanchions, cleats and chocks. There are gates P & S and at the transom to provide ease of access.
Part of the beauty of the Europa layout is bringing the outdoors in with her wide double doors opeing from the salon on the aft deck. Irish Lady affords expansive living area on the main deck level. Access to the Captain's Quarters and a generous lazarette is via hatches in the aft deck.
Up the varnished teak ladder to the flying bridge where there is an equally expansive area for family and guests with open deck to port and the optional L-settee which can seat up to 6 with table to starboard. Forward there are the standard fore and aft facing bench seats with storage under (storage is also found under the L settee) capable of seating 8. When one wishes to be out of the sun, a bimini with 3/4 enclosure covers the forward area.
Irish Lady is on her second owner, originally from Florida she has been a New England boat since 2002 and is always stored under cover in the off season.
She is attractively priced for immediate sale.
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.


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HOURS: 40 hours per week. fulltime
PAY RANGE: $43,727 – 56,626 annual
BENEFITS: Medical, Dental, Pension, and Life/Disability
The Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) develops housing opportunities for people who are low-income and/or homeless, provides technical assistance to communities and other non-profits, and advocates for housing justice
The Senior Accountant is responsible for performing finance and accounting functions for LIHI, Partnerships, and LLCs. This is a non- exempt position.
- Reconcile balance sheet accounts and ad hoc reconciliations.
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- Process month-end and year-end closing.
- Financial Statements preparation.
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- AP processing and knowledge of cash requirements.
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- Prepare schedules on monthly, quarterly, annual basis and organize audit work papers.
- Understand Grants and Contracts for the projects.
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- Minimum of 2 years experience as a staff accountant with a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or other related fields. Experience may be substituted.
- The ideal candidate is one who has previous accounting experience in AP, AR, month end closing, financial analysis, reconciliation, variance analysis, budgets, forecasting, and quarterly reporting.
- Experience with accounting systems and property management systems preferred.
- Experience in real estate, construction, property management, or nonprofit accounting preferred.
- Excellent organizational skills. Ability to learn quickly, work well under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Flexible and willing to work evenings/weekends during busy times. Ability to teach other staff members. Must be a motivated a team player.
- Self-starter with good problem solving skills and ability to interact and communicate positively and successfully with all levels of the organization.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills required.
- Advanced knowledge of Excel and Word required.
- Ability to interact with senior management.
- Must pass criminal background check and drug screen.
This is a unionized position, represented by Local 8 of the Office of Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU).
If interested in this position please send in a cover letter and resume. Application forms can be used as a substitute to a cover letter and resume, but are not required during the first step of the application process. Applications are available on the LIHI website at www.lihi.org, may be obtained in person at the office, or will be mailed to you by phone request at (206) 443-9935 ext 0. All application materials should be mailed, faxed, or dropped off in person to:
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Closing date: Open until filled
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As always, the Daily Mail has their razor-sharp journalistic scope trained on the real issues that keep 21st-century human beings awake at night, and they've provided an extensive communiqué regarding the #1 Most Important and Totally Legit Thing that People Should Definitely Bother Worrying About Posthaste. That thing, obviously, is SPACE SEX.
Here's the headline that made my day:
Bad news for the 220-mile high club: Researchers find sex in space could lead to life-threatening illnesses
The article goes on to explain how tests have shown that zero-gravity conditions can have negative affects on human (and plant and animal) health.
Dr Chebli said: "We found intracellular traffic flow is compromised under hyper-gravity conditions and both hyper and microgravity affect the precisely coordinated construction of the cellular envelope in the growing cell.
'This allows us not only to understand general principles of the reproductive mechanism in plants but, more importantly, how the intracellular transport machinery in eukaryotic cells responds to altered gravity conditions.
'Our findings have implications for human health as similar effects are likely to occur in human cells such as neurons where long distance intracellular transport is crucial.'
So, presumably, it's the being-in-space that's harmful to the cells—not the naked-touching-with-a-sexy-alien-waitress. If I'm reading this correctly, the point is that if we moved to Mars and had a few generations of kids in weirdo Mars-gravity, we might all end up with a bunch of fucked-up diseases and then die because our cells would be like, "Nu-uh." But not because of the dirty, filthy space-sex itself. The Daily Mail just tacked that on so they could cram "220-mile-high club" into the headline. And FOR THAT I SALUTE THEM.


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Baltimore-area teens reported missing found safe
Person of interest sought in Carroll County teen's disappearance
Teenagers from Baltimore and Carroll counties have been found safe in unrelated missing persons cases.
Carroll County sheriff's investigators said Mackenzie Lea Digiacomantonio, 15, of Union Bridge, has been found safe in Baltimore County. Officials said she was last seen leaving her home in the 8 p.m. hour on Dec. 19.
Days later, officials said Mackenzie was with sheriff's investigators and the Maryalnd State Police Computer Crimes Unit and that she would be reunited her family afterward.
Investigators had said they believe Mackenzie may have been with an acquaintance she recently met online. Investigators said they are seeking a person of interest. Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call the sheriff's office at 410-386-2900 or 888-399-TIPP.
Baltimore County police announced Dec. 27 that Cheyenne Angel Abbott, of Windsor Mill, has been found safe. She had been unaccounted for after more than a week.
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Hunched over laptops in a small room in a downtown hotel in Vancouver, they're unlikely looking bounty hunters.
No guns, no handcuffs and no bad guys in sight.
Instead their prey is lurking hidden in the computer, software bugs that can be exploited by hackers intent on cracking supposedly secure websites. For two days at the CanSecWest security conference earlier this year in Vancouver, a steady parade of security experts attacked everything from Apple's Safari, Microsoft's Internet Explorer and other web browsers, to Adobe's Flash.
By the end of the two days, they had collectively racked up close to $1 million. It wasn't the ill-gotten gains of black-hat hackers, but instead prize money awarded by companies to white-hat hackers who search out bugs in software and by doing so help companies make the software more secure. (The term "black hat" comes from old westerns where the bad guys usually wore black hats and the good guys wore white ones.)
"These websites are already under attack," said Jacob Hansen, CEO and co-founder of CrowdCurity, a California-based start-up that provides companies with a platform for crowdsourcing security testing, with rewards programs.
"What you do by creating a bounty program or a reward program is you are really creating a communications channel for the good guys out there.
"They can use the communications channel to identify security issues and then earn a reward."
It also heightens their stature in the security community. Getting paid by a company like Google or Microsoft for uncovering a major glitch means more than cash: it's caché.
"They are able to put it on their CV, they tweet about it, blog about it, they're recognized within the community for being a skilled security guy," said Hansen.
Powers used for good
Vancouver's Bex.io, which provides a software platform for Bitcoin exchanges, is among companies that pay a bug bounty to white-hat hackers to help improve their security.
"The general idea of a bug bounty is that you put your software up to attack," said Kris Constable, in charge of Bex.io's operations and security. "Most software that exists today is attacked by malicious people.
"The idea of a bug bounty is to create a model where people can use those powers for good. Instead of using that vulnerability against you, they are rewarded for finding it.
"Most major companies now are offering bug bounties."
With Bitcoin exchanges a potentially lucrative target for hackers, the stakes are high and Bex.io has an ongoing bounty program, with rewards paid in bitcoins.
Payoffs vary, and they can be lucrative.
Microsoft's bounty program pays up to $100,000 for "truly novel exploitation techniques" in attacks on the latest version of its operating system.
Earlier this year, Google expanded its vulnerability reward program to include all its Chrome apps and extensions, offering rewards ranging from $500 to $10,000 US depending on the severity of the vulnerability, and their potential use to hackers.
Facebook offers a minimum $500 reward to white-hat hackers who uncover security bugs, with no maximum specified, and payments based on the severity and creativity of the exploit.
Late last year a Brazilian web security researcher Reginaldo Silva found a Facebook vulnerability that could have been used by hackers. Within three-and-a-half hours of getting Silva's report, Facebook had a short-term fix live and it later paid a $33,500 US bounty to Silva.
According to Facebook it has paid out more than $2 million since it started its bug bounty program in 2011. In 2013, it paid out a total of $1.5 million to 330 researchers worldwide.
Etsy, an online marketplace for handmade and vintage items, also offers a minimum $500 reward, with higher payouts depending on the bug found.
CEOs held accountable
While Internet security was once shrouded in secrecy, with companies preferring to simply assure their customers and users that their applications are secure, that "security through obscurity" viewpoint is coming under increasing criticism.
No sooner do companies issue such reassurances than news of another major breach breaks. Most recently, eBay has warned all its users to change their passwords after hackers accessed a database with customers names, encrypted passwords and other personal data.
And blaming hackers is no longer enough — now, not only IT departments but CEOs are being held accountable, by customers and by shareholders.
Target president and CEO Gregg Steinhafel stepped down earlier this year, his departure hastened by a massive security breach in which hackers accessed personal and financial data — including credit and debit card information — for more than 40 million customers.
Companies that use crowdsourcing to test their software say they aren't making themselves more vulnerable to attack: hackers are testing all the time, they're just not sharing their discoveries with their victims.
"There are two schools here, the new school and the old school," said Hansen. "In the old school they want to hide everything and not be open and transparent around potential security issues.
"The new school realizes they need to interact with the (security) community. Nobody is 100-per-cent secure, but the best way to ensure you are as secure as you can be is to interact with the community."
CrowdCurity lets companies set up their own bug bounty program on its website, with rewards ranging from $1,000 for a high critical bug, to $300 for a medium and $50 for a bug judged to be not so critical. CrowdCurity has 1,000 testers from all over the world who can choose to take the challenge and see if they can uncover glitches that could leave a website vulnerable to attack.
Displaying an assurance of security doesn't guarantee a website is secure anymore and Hansen thinks it won't be long before bug bounty programs will become standard — meaning consumers will expect such testing. Bug bounty programs may even be touted by marketing and PR departments, hoping to convince users they're serious about security.
"It will be a requirement for users of the website that the site interact with the security community and stay transparent around their security issues," said Hansen.
Shane Macaulay, considered one of the top bug bounty hunters in the world, was a winner in the first CanSec West Pwn2Own contest in 2007. (Pwn is slang meaning to own in the sense of conquering or taking over; own refers to the fact that successful hackers get to keep the laptop they hacked.)
Even though rewards programs have been around for a number of years, Macaulay said they can still be controversial.
"I think in the long run you might see a little bit more of a formalized structure in some of these systems," he said. "Sometimes there is a little confusion over severity (of the vulnerability), over how much it's worth. There is still room to grow, to make it more fair for everybody."
While it can become a full-time occupation — and a lucrative one at that — Macaulay said he has switched to the defensive side of security.
"I like a little more stability and less stress," he said. "When you're constantly fighting to attack these products, it can get a little bit stressful."
While there's money to be made, it's not always a simple matter of claiming it.
Last summer, a systems information expert from Palestine tried to report a security flaw to Facebook and, frustrated by a lack of response, hacked Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's account. While Facebook fixed the security flaw, it didn't pay Khalil Shreateh under its bug bounty program, arguing he broke the rules.
In another case that made headlines in the security world, a then-17-old German student complained PayPal didn't pay up when he reported a vulnerability on its website. The teen, Robert Kugler, disclosed the vulnerability online and wrote that PayPal told him he was too young to claim a prize.
PayPal, which is owned by eBay, denied it wasn't paying up because of the youth's age but said the vulnerability had already been reported.
Other youths have fared better.
A 12-year old San Jose boy was paid $3,000 by Mozilla for uncovering security flaws in the Firefox web browser. And a teen security researcher, known by his nickname "Pinkie Pie," won Internet renown and $60,000 from Google for cracking Chrome at CanSec West's contest in 2012.
"If you've got hacking skills, it's extra income," said Bex.io's Constable. "For some people it's a career."
For companies, Constable said it's a cost-effective way of getting experts to test security systems. "You can't pay for 7,500 people around the world to be all hacking your site," he said.
Consequences for black-hats
While some companies worry discoveries could kept secret, bug bounty proponents say that while only the first person to discover a bug gets a reward, with so many people testing, it's often not long before others discover the same bug.
So hackers who want to exploit software glitches are unlikely to join bug bountry schemes — they're more interested in finding software glitches that remain unknown, much like the recently publicized Heartbleed vulernability did for two years.
Marisa Fagan, community manager at Bugcrowd Inc., said as bug bounty programs grow — with more and more security researchers searching out bugs — it will narrow the opportunities for black-hat hackers.
Bugcrowd.com, as the name suggests, crowd sources bug testing with 8,900 testers around the world.
"What's fantastic about the bug bounty programs becoming so popular is that it really does create this race against time for the black-hat community," she said.
"It really has put the so-called black-hat community on notice because they're not going to be able to use the same vulnerabilities with impunity as before, at least not for long …. Now there is a ticking clock on every vulnerability and it's just a matter of time before the crowd finds them. We're trying to spread the notion this is something each and every company can do."


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Steering movement is the most basic movement of the vehicle, in the car driving process, the driver through the steering wheel has always been to control the direction of the car, in order to achieve their own driving intention. Four Wheel Steering (4WS) is an advanced vehicle control technique which can markedly improve vehicle steering characteristics. Compared with traditional front wheel steering vehicles, 4WS vehicles can steer the front wheels and the rear wheels individually for cornering, according to the vehicle motion states such as the information of vehicle speed, yaw velocity and lateral acceleration. Therefore, 4WS can enhance the handling stability and improve the active safety for vehicles.


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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The mother of Bristol Palin's boyfriend sent text messages to two police informants discussing drug transactions before her arrest on felony drug charges, authorities say.
An affidavit filed Monday says Sherry L. Johnston sent text messages referring to "coffee" as a code for the drug OxyContin.
The 42-year-old Johnston was arrested last week after state troopers served a search warrant at her Wasilla home. She is out on bail.
Johnston is the mother of 18-year-old Levi Johnston. Gov. Sarah Palin announced in September that her 18-year-old daughter Bristol was pregnant and Johnston was the father.
Authorities say the case began in the second week of September — a couple of weeks into Palin's campaign as Republican vice presidential candidate — when drug investigators intercepted a package containing 179 Oxycontin pills. That led to the arrest of the suspects, who agreed to be informants.
According to the affidavit, Johnson sent a text message to one informant on October 1, writing: "Hey, my phones are tapped and reporters and god knows who else is always following me and the family so no privacy. I will let u no when I can go for cof."
Ten days after Johnston said there wasn't enough privacy for a drug sale, she texted again to set up a meeting at a store, according to the affidavit. The document says the informant received $800 to make a purchase, meeting investigators later with 10 pills of 80-milligram Oxycontin.
A second purchase was made the following day, authorities said. This time the informant wore a hidden camera and a microphone.
A third purchase occurred Nov. 26. The informant was wired for the transaction and this time police videotaped the meeting.
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by Loretta Ross ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 8, 2017
An auctioneer tries to help her boyfriend free a fellow veteran suffering from PTSD when he's accused of murder.
Wren Morgan has finally been able to get into Hadleigh House, a huge old mansion near her Missouri hometown, which is being auctioned off along with its contents and which Wren has been hired to catalog. The death on a nearby trail of a man dressed in an antique Confederate uniform and riding a stolen horse has been written off as a drunken accident. But another fatality has become the concern of Wren's private-eye boyfriend, Death Bogart, a veteran who suffers from lung problems and PTSD. Death has accepted the pro bono case of Anthony Dozier, another Afghan vet suffering from PTSD, who was found with the body of August Jones, a man he imagined was a fellow soldier he was trying to get to a field hospital. The dead man's father, Tyler Jones, heads the Church of the Army of Christ, a hate group that persecutes non-Christians. The church demonstrated at the funeral of Dozier's Muslim wife, and Dozier threatened to kill Jones. Dozier's lawyer is pursuing an insanity plea, but after Death takes the case at the behest of a group of veterans living next to Hadleigh House, he becomes convinced that Dozier is innocent and sets out to prove it. Wren, meanwhile, finds among the contents of the house a sketchbook containing beautiful preliminary work for the statue of an angel in the nearby cemetery, which turns out to be the scene of August's stabbing. While Death and his brother, Randy, look for clues in the present, Wren investigates the past even as a killer does everything possible to thwart the investigation.Ross' sleuthing pair (Death and the Brewmaster's Widow, 2015, etc.) again faces a present-day murder steeped in historical detail. The subpar mystery is offset by the ripped-from-the-headlines buzz.
Pub Date: Feb. 8, 2017
Page Count: 264
Publisher: Midnight Ink/Llewellyn
Review Posted Online: Nov. 24, 2016
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2016
Categories: MYSTERY & DETECTIVE | DETECTIVES & PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS | COZY MYSTERY
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by Kathy Reichs ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 17, 2020
Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.
A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it's been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department's earlier practice (The Bone Collection, 2016, etc.), she has no intention of calling in Tempe as a consultant and promptly identifies the faceless body herself as that of a young Asian man. Nettled by several errors in Heavner's analysis, and even more by her willingness to share the gory details at a press conference, Tempe launches her own investigation, which is not so much off the books as against the books. Heavner isn't exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. But the hints of other crimes Tempe's identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M.E.'s splenetic outbursts. Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U.S. government project to research biological agents that could control human behavior, the hinky spiritual retreat Sparkling Waters, the dark web site DeepUnder, and the disappearances of at least four schoolchildren, two of whom have also turned up dead. And why on earth was Vodyanov carrying Tempe's own contact information? The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in "Drugs. Fraud. Breaking and entering. Arson. Kidnapping. How does attempted murder sound?"Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine's survival.
Pub Date: March 17, 2020
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Scribner
Review Posted Online: Dec. 23, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2020
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by Attica Locke ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 17, 2019
The redoubtable Locke follows up her Edgar-winning Bluebird, Bluebird (2017) with an even knottier tale of racism and deceit set in the same scruffy East Texas boondocks.
It's the 2016 holiday season, and African American Texas Ranger Darren Matthews has plenty of reasons for disquiet besides the recent election results. Chiefly there's the ongoing fallout from Darren's double murder investigation involving the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas. He and his wife are in counseling. He's become a "desk jockey" in the Rangers' Houston office while fending off suspicions from a district attorney who thinks Darren hasn't been totally upfront with him about a Brotherhood member's death. (He hasn't.) And his not-so-loving mother is holding on to evidence that could either save or crucify him with the district attorney. So maybe it's kind of a relief for Darren to head for the once-thriving coastal town of Jefferson, where the 9-year-old son of another Brotherhood member serving hard time for murdering a black man has gone missing while motorboating on a nearby lake. Then again, there isn't that much relief given the presence of short-fused white supremacists living not far from descendants of the town's original black and Native American settlers—one of whom, an elderly black man, is a suspect in the possible murder of the still-missing boy. Meanwhile, Darren's cultivating his own suspicions of chicanery involving the boy's wealthy and imperious grandmother, whose own family history is entwined with the town's antebellum past and who isn't so fazed with her grandson's disappearance that she can't have a lavish dinner party at her mansion. In addition to her gifts for tight pacing and intense lyricism, Locke shows with this installment of her Highway 59 series a facility for unraveling the tangled strands of the Southwest's cultural legacy and weaving them back together with the volatile racial politics and traumatic economic stresses of the present day. With her confident narrative hands on the wheel, this novel manages to evoke a portrait of Trump-era America—which, as someone observes of a pivotal character in the story, resembles "a toy ball tottering on a wire fence" that "could fall either way."Locke's advancement here is so bracing that you can't wait to discover what happens next along her East Texas highway.
Pub Date: Sept. 17, 2019
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown
Review Posted Online: July 1, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 15, 2019
Categories: GENERAL MYSTERY & DETECTIVE | MYSTERY & DETECTIVE | POLICE PROCEDURALS
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- Hermione: "It's meant to be the most haunted building in Britain. Did I mention that?"
- Ron: "Twice."
- Hermione: "Oh. Do you want to move a bit closer ... to the Shrieking Shack?"
- Ron: "Actually, I'm fine here."
- — Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley discussing the Shrieking Shack[src]
The Shrieking Shack is an abandoned house in Hogsmeade. For many years, villagers thought it was haunted because they often heard screams coming from inside, and Albus Dumbledore encouraged the rumour, as he was the one who commissioned it, due to Remus Lupin's Lycanthropy.
According to Nearly Headless Nick, not even the Hogwarts ghosts will enter it. The Shrieking Shack's entrance from the Hogwarts Grounds is the base of the Whomping Willow. The trick is to poke the knot in the trunk, which paralyses the tree. The secret passageway can be seen on the Marauder's Map.
In reality, the Shrieking Shack was only used so that Remus Lupin would have a place for his monthly transformations into a werewolf in secret and in safety, during the time he was a student attending Hogwarts. Madam Pomfrey used to escort Lupin into The Shrieking Shack before his transformation. The yells and shouts heard by the villagers were really Lupin biting and scratching himself due to lack of humans to infect.
The "shack" actually has no working doors or windows that allow entry or exit of the premises. The entrance is through a tunnel under the Whomping Willow on Hogwarts's school grounds. This allowed Remus Lupin (and James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, and Sirius Black) to pass between the two locations unnoticed (as Animagi or Werewolf).
One year Sirius thought it would be funny to lure his arch-nemesis Severus Snape to the Shack where Lupin was due for his monthly transformation, in order to eliminate Snape from spying on them. James saved Severus in time, but not before Snape witnessed what Lupin was, though he was forbidden from telling anyone else.
In 1994, Harry and Hermione were led there when Sirius Black, as a dog, dragged Ron off into it. Harry then found out who had really betrayed his parents in there, and Scabbers's true identity was revealed. During the confrontation, Remus Lupin and Severus Snape also entered the shack, Remus to assist his friend in exposing the true betrayer, and Snape attempted to capture Sirius.
The Shrieking Shack was later used by Lord Voldemort and several of his Death Eaters in 1998 as a hideout during the Battle of Hogwarts. The death of Severus Snape occurred in this building. It is unknown whether they knew that if they went down the stairs and through a passage they would be in the Castle Grounds next to the Whomping Willow.
The Shrieking Shack was an abandoned house, with the windows and doors boarded up. The rooms and halls were all dirty, covered with dust, and the furniture was moth-eaten and broken. There was a chair in the foyer of the Shack that had one of its legs ripped off.
In the room where Peter Pettigrew is caught, there is a magnificent but dusty four-poster bed with rickety doors.
Behind the scenes
- Severus Snape had a terrible history with the Shack. In 1975, Sirius Black told Severus that if he went under the Whomping Willow, he would find out what was wrong with Remus; this would have lead to his death, as Remus was in werewolf form. On 6 June, 1994, Severus was disarmed, and knocked unconscious. On 2 May, 1998, Severus was ultimately killed in the Shrieking Shack by Nagini under Voldemort's orders.
- In the film adaptation Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Snape instead dies in the Boathouse.
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the walls of the Shack are shown to slowly move.
- The Shrieking Shack is shown more as a large two-story house rather than a shack in the film adaptations.
- The second moment of Chapter Fourteen on Pottermore, in which the Shack first appears, is titled "The Shrieking Shack".
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Appears in flashback(s))
- LEGO Harry Potter: Building the Magical World
- LEGO Harry Potter: Characters of the Magical World
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (Name seen on sign)
- Harry Potter LEGO Sets
- Pottermore


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Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Urges Parents and Coaches to Develop Policies for Posting Minors' Information Online
SAN FRANCISCO -- Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today urged parents, coaches and officials for youth sports to develop protective policies related to minors' personal information, particularly for information posted online.
Attorney General Harris also announced that after an inquiry from her office, GameChanger, a popular sports statistics website, has updated its privacy policy and practices to better protect minors. The action comes as more and more information about minors is being posted online, often without adult consent.
"Most parents probably do not realize that the simple act of signing a child up for soccer or Little League could put enough information online to put the minor in harm's way," said Attorney General Harris. "While the Internet makes tracking games and statistics easier, it is important that parents, coaches, school officials and volunteers all are informed and think carefully about any information that is put online, especially when it pertains to children."
GameChanger updated its privacy policy and put new protections for minors in place after an inquiry from Attorney General Harris's Privacy Enforcement & Protection Unit.
The changes include: not allowing anyone under the age of 13 to sign up or post on the site; removing last names of team members under the age of 13; and providing privacy information pertaining to minors to users when teams are added to the website.
The inquiry into GameChanger's policies came after the Attorney General's office was contacted by a parent who was concerned about the amount of information being posted on the site. Information included on the site for some teams included the teams' travel schedule, child's statistics, full name and nicknames.
"I was disturbed when I realized so much information about my son's team was being posted without my permission," said Amanda Biers-Melcher of Burbank. "I appreciate Attorney General's Harris's assistance with the company and dedication to helping protect the privacy of our children."
The Attorney General's Privacy Unit will work with parents and sports leagues to develop best practices for handling children's personal information in youth sports programs.
Here are tips for anyone who is involved in youth sports:
Playing It Safe with Children's Information: Tips for Parents
Youth sports teams provide great opportunities for our children to engage in exercise, while learning valuable lessons about team work, healthy competition and fair play. When signing your children up for such activities, be mindful of the need to protect their personal information.
Ask if the team or league will post any of the child's personal identifying information – such as name, address, school or photo on a website. Tell them if you do not want your child's information posted online.
- Ask questions about any request for your child's Social Security number, health insurance number or birth certificate. Propose alternatives, such as the following:
- Instead of turning over a copy of a birth certificate, offer to show a copy of the child's birth certificate and ask that the birth date be entered in the records and noted as verified.
- Resist providing the Social Security number. In most cases, the child's Social Security number should not be necessary.
- Insist that a health insurance number, if required, be protected with strong security measures, such as locking it in an office file cabinet or encrypting it if in a digital format.
- Ask if the team or league has a written privacy policy, and ask for a copy. If they don't have one, encourage them to develop an official policy statement that describes the kinds of personal information they collect, how they use it and how it is shared. (Note: If they collect personal information through a website, they may be required to post a privacy policy on the site.)


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